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Re:After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promi... by JasonFruit on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:21AM (#21279681)
Do you mean if the same house is moved to a new location on the same lot? I'm finding this difficult to imagine.
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Re:After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promi... by tpm on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:40AM (#21279777)
No, I mean the movement of earth underneath the house, tectonic plates etc. Earthquakes are one obvious example:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/7182/does-an-earthqu...

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Re:After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promi... by ralmeida on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:38PM (#21287656)
To be fair, the cited displacement of 8 ft (average for non-earthquake situations is 0 to 10cm) is within the typical margin of error of a GPS. That is, the coordinate change is small enough not to matter for “election” purposes.
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